[The causes of early postoperative complications in the surgical treatment of hemorrhaging gastroduodenal ulcers].

Based on the material of 1201 patients who had been operated on for complicated gastroduodenal ulcers, the causes are analyzed of the early postoperative complications (EPC) development. The EPCs were encountered in 15.5%. The most important risk factors identified in the study included peptic ulcer complications, the degree of severity of ulcer bleeding, time for the surgical intervention to be done, the technique employed, with the effects thereof having been studied on the EPC occurrence. Stenosis presenting with penetration and gigantic ulcers was found out to have the most apparent impact on the origination of EPC.